haywire

英 [ˈheɪwaɪə(r)]

美 [ˈheɪwaɪər]

adj.  失控的; 乱套的

TEM8计算机

BNC.36642 / COCA.22464

习惯用语

adj.

go haywire
• 出故障；紊乱；失去控制
  to stop working correctly or become out of control
• After that, things started to go haywire.
  此后事情开始失去控制。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 失控的;乱套的
  If something goeshaywire, it goes out of control or starts doing the wrong thing.
  1. Many Americans think their legal system has gone haywire.
     很多美国人认为他们的司法体系已经乱套了。

英英释义

noun

• wire for tying up bales of hay

adj

• not functioning properly
  1. something is amiss
  2. has gone completely haywire
  3. something is wrong with the engine
  Synonym:amiss(p)awry(p)wrong(p)
• informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
  1. it used to drive my husband balmy
  Synonym:balmybarmybatsbattybonkersbuggycrackedcrackersdaftdottyfruitykookykookielocoloonyloopynutsnuttyround the bendaround the bendwackywhacky

双语例句

• It was not the public but the private sector that went haywire in Ireland and in Spain.
  在爱尔兰和西班牙，出问题的不是公共部门，而是私人部门。
• Overwritten files, images ( or CSS or JavaScript) mysteriously "changing", and pages going haywire in totally different sections of the site than you expected.
  覆盖的文件、图像（或CSS或JavaScript）被神秘地“更改”，页面乱七八糟地分散在站点中与您预期完全不同的部分中。
• Andre: remember that moment when Marlon Brando sent the Indian woman to accept the oscar, and everything went haywire?
  安德鲁：记住那一刻，当马龙？白兰度让印度妇女去接受奥斯卡奖杯的时候，天下大乱了吗？
• But the issue worrying some investment firms is what might be called the "summer curse"; precisely because trading volumes tend to be so thin in the summer months, and senior hands are away, markets can go completely haywire if something does go wrong.
  但让某些投资机构感到不安的，是所谓的“夏季诅咒”；正是因为在夏季这几个月交易往往极为清淡，加上高管们外出度假，如果出现问题，市场可能会完全失控。
• Mr Obama warned that markets could go haywire if there is another confrontation over the US debt limit.
  奥巴马警告称，如果在债务上限问题再次发生对峙，市场可能会陷入混乱。
• But when he saw this kid trying to steal his new car, he really went haywire.
  但是当他看到那孩子想偷他那辆新车的时候，他真是火冒三丈。
• Connecting those strands is critical to diagnosing and restoring balance to an immune system gone haywire in a disease like Lassa fever.
  将这些线索联系在一起对于像拉沙热导致的免疫系统紊乱的诊断以及平衡的保持是至关重要的。
• Suddenly the dials went haywire.
  刻度盘突然乱了套。
• So is the readiness of test drivers to take over the wheel if something goes haywire.
  列在前面的还有试车司机在自动驾驶汽车失控时能够随时接管方向盘。
• But Haywire always said that he wanted to go to Holland.
  但是海威尔总是说他想去荷兰。